Issue with Mac, Linux and windows portability with ls and sprintf commant

Hi,

I can get this command to work fine under Mac OS but if fails to work under linux and windows:

tmplist = ls(sprintf('%s%s',datdir,'/*file*'))

I use this to make a list of files to input within a loop.

Any suggestions?

Cheers - Doug

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Use filesep and pathsep instead of '/'. These will generate the appropriate separator for the path.

doc filesep

Or just use fullfile

doc fullfile

[Walter Roberson]

Use of filesep and fullfile are generally good ideas. However, using '/' as the separator will work on all three operating systems. Although you always see MS Windows use '\' instead of '/', internally it is really '/' in MS Windows.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Using dir() is more robust.

http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_process_a_sequence_of_files.3F